Intensive Couples Work

Weekends OR Mid-Week

Couples therapy intensives serve as a way to inspire significant change in your relationship in a compact period of time. Intensives are comprised of multiple, typically longer-than-usual couples sessions held over the course of a single weekend (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) or Mid-week (Tuesday -Wednesday-Thursday). These condensed sessions consist of 2-4 months of couples work in just 3 days.

Intensive couples sessions may also be ideal for:

High profile couples

couples that would prefer not to do couples work in their home town

entrepreneurial couples struggling within small business and/or connection

working professionals with over-scheduled lives + Obligations

couples in the aviation industry or Military - Non-Rev Travel To BWI

Sessions will be held at the Space Between Counseling Services office, located in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Baltimore.

It is important to know that it is highly suggested that couples stay in a nearby hotel OR Airbnb over the course of the couples work intensive, rather than returning home between sessions. Creating space between both the familiarity and stressfulness of your usual home-life will facilitate deeper focus, uninterrupted connection, regulation, processing and needed rest / relaxation.

Utilizing the Stan Tatkin’s Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT), our practice founder and seasoned couples therapist, Susan Stork, LCPC, will walk alongside you and your partner as you take the necessary and intense steps required to facilitate deeper connection and relational commitment. Through PACT work, Susan will help you learn to read each other’s actions so you can navigate conflict and find more meaning in the moments you share together.

Additional consultation beyond our initial phone consultation may be required if one or both partners struggles with any of the following conditions:

Major drug or alcohol use or abuse

Current or History of Physical Violence

Untreated Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Major psychiatric illness such as schizophrenia

Personality Disorders

Active or Previous Suicidal Ideation or Self-Harm

Please know that therapy intensives should not serve as a replacement for routine couples therapy sessions. Prior to and following enrolling in intensive couples work, I strongly recommend couples to establish and continue a therapeutic relationship with a couples therapist in their local area.